Hardware Engineer, PCB
Normal ComputingJob Title
Hardware Engineer, PCB
Role Summary
Design and deliver custom PCBs for Normal Computing's CIM substrate, owning schematic, layout, fabrication, and post-silicon bring-up. Collaborate with analog, digital, ML, and test teams to integrate custom silicon and optimize system-level power, performance, and area.
Experience Level
Mid-level. No explicit years-of-experience specified.
Responsibilities
The role requires ownership of PCB development, bring-up, and post-silicon validation.
- Lead end-to-end PCB design flow: research, schematic, layout, fabrication, and evaluation of boards that host custom chips.
- Lead post-silicon correlation, validation, root-cause analysis, and hardware debug.
- Perform PCB bring-up to verify manufactured boards meet design intent.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with analog, digital, ML, and test engineers to improve system-level PPA.
Requirements
Must-have skills and experience followed by nice-to-have items.
- Proven experience owning multiple PCBs end-to-end through design, simulation, fabrication, and bring-up.
- Familiarity with PCB design tools such as Altium, Cadence Allegro, OrCAD, or Xpedition.
- Experience designing boards with FPGAs, high-speed memories, flash, PCIe or similar expansion formats, and high-speed connectors (e.g., 100G Ethernet).
- Hands-on post-silicon validation and hardware debug experience, including root-cause analysis.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience fabricating and bringing up custom PCBs to evaluate custom CIM chips.
- Comfortable in a lab bench environment, including fine soldering and microscope work.
- Experience automating design flows or data processing using scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
Education Requirements
Not specified.
About the Company
Company: Normal Computing
Headquarters: New York, NY, USA
Normal Computing develops software and hardware solutions for the semiconductor and AI infrastructure industries, specializing in ASICs for image and video diffusion inference and AI accelerators. The company focuses on architecture and microarchitecture of compute blocks, PE array design, ISA co-design, and FPGA prototyping.
